{"id":111147,"date":"2026-05-13T02:46:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/111147\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:46:26","slug":"spain-to-trump-you-cant-use-our-air-bases-for-iran-war-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/111147\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain to Trump: You can\u2019t use our air bases for Iran war \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The President will not allow the world\u2019s number one state sponsor of terror to have a nuclear weapon with which to threaten the United States and the world,\u201d Kelly continued.<\/p>\n

Spain, run by Socialist Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez, has found itself an EU outlier when it comes to the Middle East. S\u00e1nchez\u2019s government has repeatedly pushed for the EU to issue stronger criticism of Israel, and has hit out at the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.<\/p>\n

Albares argued that Spain\u2019s positions have now become mainstream within the bloc.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s true to say we have been the first to take that approach. On Iran, and on everything that is going on in the Middle East,\u201d he said. \u201cWe seem to stand alone, only at first. A few days later, some others start to say the same things. A month later, everyone in Europe says exactly what we say.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy? Because it’s what makes sense to the interest of our citizens, European citizens, not only Spanish citizens, and to our values, European values.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Spanish Foreign Minister Jos\u00e9 Manuel Albares speaks to the media prior to a meeting in Brussels on March 16, 2026. | Thierry Monasse\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

He said the EU was at a turning point, arguing it must become more independent as global instability deepens and transatlantic foreign policy grows less predictable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“The President will not allow the world\u2019s number one state sponsor of terror to have a nuclear weapon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[38,159,34,37,49,179,1217,443,1218,7047,445,1155,51,36,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-111147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-foreign-policy","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-military","14":"tag-pedro-sanchez","15":"tag-security","16":"tag-spain","17":"tag-strategic-autonomy","18":"tag-trade","19":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-war","22":"tag-war-in-iran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116564982821904496","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}